Trust happens when leaders are transparent.

One of the things about leadership is that you cannot be a moderate, balanced, thoughtful, careful articulator of policy. You've got to be on the lunatic fringe.

Nothing of any importance has ever been accomplished by a pessimist.

Don't take a job because your mother wants you to. Don't be a victim. You own your decision.

I never put myself out there as an employment agency.

An overburdened, overstretched executive is the best executive, because he or she doesn't have the time to meddle, to deal in trivia, to bother people.

Cash is king. Get every drop of cash you can get and hold onto it.